BOGS "INTERVIEWED."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 104, 4 May 1871, Page 4

BOGS "INTERVIEWED."

A New York Times' reporter gives an „,.a ccount of a r.ecent , visit on enquiry ' at a ' house in that city on ;ihe door of which is the inscription,. " Dogs Educated." ,The < ; master of the house, "a very pleasantper- ■ son,'' being summoned, politely offered the reporter all facilities, ; and a. door being : opened, a; number of , dogs catne into the room in good order headed by a poodle. ( . „,The reporter noticed that they, evinced, no cognizance of his : presence, "not so much, as by |the wag .of a tail.", On his mentioning the circumstance, the professor replied, "They know no one but me. Now sit ' down "doggie's."''" The animals sat down on their hind' legs', air save' one little ;spaniel/ "who could not keep' his perpendicular, but itoppl^d.overeyfery.timehe^ried it, though' he kept'at it persistently 1 On a sign from his master, the poodle led the' ; little fellow into the corner, when, finding a prop he got along quite comfortably. <;The master remarked that no dog is so" good as a . poodle and went, on to say, " You would 'be' surprised to know what' a difference it , makes; when,, I trap a puppy from an intellectual stock. * That poodle's grand-' father ran 100 nights hand-running in the Orphan's Friend; or Innocence, Avenged in the Old Country, and his grandson learns 'most' : anything at one showing. Pond of him? Of course lam. I have seen ; , tight,, times, .., but I would just as soon think of selling a child "of "mine as of parting with him. .That dog. would steal for me if I , told him to." "Are you kept pretty fcusy ?" Pretty much so, though alone as a business it would not -keep me. At night lam a scene-shifter. Americans has to be educated up to my ,;art.ip There is getting to be a private taste for It.. I Christmas week 'l sold four, dogs at a good price. They were all good romping dogs. , It takes a great deal, of. patience to instruct . a dog thoroughly." " What is the price of a regular first-class performer, such as. 1 '."Fpiil'd draw at ; a; circus t " "You can't purany 'fixed\price;pn a star dog. 1 I have been offered 800 dais, for Billy, .here, By ,a . professional as was going, to the^ Brazils. «A' "good : dog; .one that, could play inj the . ■ * Montargis, Apiece, . and. : had i good size! an^ n looked the garfc, I see, : was -sold in 'Man- ! - Chester this last'bummer for"^2ooi ' Three years Bill's half-brother was sold by r^ ; 'me ;^or^s6 : d6ls/ ! He 7 went to California. The last I heard of the party was thaj; he;-: 'l'ha,d -vrjetiijed rfpom. : the ; p-nd j was running forthe Legislature.' I 'hires out . does sometimes. I .have got two travelling now' with a minstrel troupe'.' ,I.get'2s dols. a moßthjfor the; twoj, beside^' p guarantee^ of 400 dols. in case they are not retunled. 1 ' 1 ' 1 ■'"'Don't 1 thbj 'Sometimes^ throw up ';engagenients»B4id icbme ■•> bacfo'td 'yoiu ?" "So they does,' ; and it's a very trying Ipart of the businessyfwid; expensive telegraphing over the "'country, about , dogs. Of course,^ I haye : ib whipthe'in^ and keep them! till called fdr. T/ 'Theiife' was one dbg I owned once 7 that r broke i-ldose 20 tiiriesj I couldn't break hirn^ ojc ifc -At last he would I run j?upr<t6e.;Btet)S,s look .over :thejthrflßh:ol!d''"at / me, or fKfeep^the I : 6ther side of Hhe-' street, jjistsb^p/to have^asightrat Die, and ihen, J kindof sfttisfiedi wcTuld clear ofet;again. j/jliji^w'tM^V^s ju^t'^otthle^^wheri away ■'''frb'm'm'ej^M^e^^'a/vir^'; i Dolly, my slipperk ,pme,. tobacco, and a " match. F vj ( r u qr^ers were given jvery quicklj^^^e, : sca^pered. arounf the .s, room*. and T brfliught "what was wanted! one I ®/ Wotiier. " Talking 2 dbonj; dogs, X can train a dog to be a regular

fire. extinguisher.. . They scisni fire arid smoke in a moment. I had a big dog once who could put out any ordinary .sized; fire in. a moment ; he Svould roll over'* and- over in it, ! even though it burnt him, until he put it out." Some ; further conversation followed, and* the ' professor said; " Only one ; thing, Sir, if Mr. don't think it a liberty, I shall presume to remark, which it is in regard to dogs, do what you may, good or bad treatment, ' they never will ■perform 5 their tricks and carry a good tail. Now, to' make you understand, do you see ffiat yellow 1 , spotted dog ?/." That dog knows we are talking about him, and he's pondering on us. Dogs does a deal of pondering. That dog's an inventive dog. Sir, and is capable of striking off for himself a perfectly original line of characters ; only, Sir.; when up to the beauties of 'his part — hinspifed, * ma J say > regularly hinspired— • he will drop l\is tail. Some dogs drops their tails more" than others ; some carries them right between their legs, which takes ever so much away from the 'traction 'of the piece. May be,. Sir, you don't know much about plays where the,, dog is the actor/ The female lady character says 'Oh, my dog! niy faithful dog ! how joyously he bounds this way. "We are saved; we are saved. He, comes, he comes.' Now to see a dog come in with his tail down liked a whipped cur takes all the life out of the piece. l3og human nature, notwithstanding any of the arts of man, will .show, itself there.. Once I got acquainted with au Italian. 1 He knowed most as much as any man I ever saw on dogs. He had a big spaniel dog, as was a most natural 'dog. , T seed that dog perform a dozen times, and that dog had no drop in. his tail, tho' his play was cowed like and not" free. Of course his master wouldn't let me haudle him. But I paid a friend of mine to have that dog . sent me once, just for iteu minutes, and I found it out. That dog was nicked, Sir ; the.'niuscels'afr th6 joint of his tail had been clean cut, so that he couldn't drop it or wag it, if he tried. That ain't true art, and I'm above it. • It's the ambition of my life, however, to succeed ou that one point. I supposed I had a very young puppy, and trained him up alone apart from any other dog, and we neither of us ever lost our tempers, we might -succeed. In the meantime, as you see, I satisfies my craving for perfection with short-taiied dogs. Nature and : her defects ain't as perceptible in a, bob-tailed dog," ""Will you allow us to thank you, for you ai ; e really a conscientious, artist? . It is, difficult to meet such. ... "Thank you, Sir," was the reply. "The v livmg I pick.up is one thing, and the •satisfaction I derives from: my calling is another. ain't often lam appreciated."